Minimig worthwhile?

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quarkx wrote:

My thoughts exactly! for the same price as one, you can get just about any REAL Amiga , and not have to worry IF the thing will run the software. You don't have to worry about "Obtaining LEGAL ROMS" etc.
For roughly the same price, you can get 2 Amiga 500's a couple dozen games, Joysticks , Peripherals etc and still have enough left over for a copy of "Amiga forever" to run on your PC and beer money. Just plug in and go, no hunting for a case, ROMS and worrying IF it's going to actually run the program you want. :lol:
I guess if the price ever drops to less then an A500, it might be worth picking up.

Believe it or not my minimig plays a good number of games that just wont run on my highly expanded A1200 even with the help of whdload.  Some games just don't like BlizzardPPC cards very much not that have have any plans to ditch my Blizzard card.

I have 2 old A500 both have developed hardware problems over the years they have been in storage since I got my new A1200 in 1992, they may just have faulty cap but one has audio problems and the other just fails to post.  But even if they were still working you would need to spend about £100 to purchase an Amiga scan doubler if you want to connect it to a modern monitor.

I also have and use WinUAE, Amiga forever and a Catweasel mk4 yes Amiga emulation works very nicely to run 68K Applications and games but it more complex to setup and my minimig makes a much better gaming platform to use after a few pints down the pub.  It quicker to setup and has no moving parts to worry about when some one trips over the cable and pulls it on the floor again
 :lol:

I don't really push my minimig to the limits as its mainly used to play Lotus 1, 2 and 3, Pinball dreams and fantasies on a Saturday night after a few drinks.

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murple wrote:
You know that with most Blizzard cards, you can completely disable the accelerator by holding down the 2 key when powering on, right?

Yes but then I lose my SCSI HD with my OS installed on it and my extra ram, so I cant use whdload any longer.  My blizzard 1240 040 dose not have the lose of HD problem but I still loose the ram and keep the AGA chipset.  

That's one of the main reason that the minimig is better for some games as it runs from disk images and dose not have the compatibility problems caused by AGA and the 020 cpu that whdload is needed to fix.

That's why I would say that an A1200 with an 030 and some extra ram is the best Amiga gaming platform with the help of whdload as just about everything then works well from hard disk.

But when the minimig gets a ram upgrade and harddisk support if will be a toss up for which is the better gaming platform as the the minimig is new hardware with out any of the problems that go with hardware that is 15 years or so old and with a build in scan doubler so it works with a modern monitor.  

If you still have a working 030 A1200 with a hard disk and a scan doubler you probably don't need a minimig.